Mohandas Gandhi

"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."

Barbara Jordan

"This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims."

Matthew Arnold

"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."

Peter Medawar

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."

Russell Baker

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."

Milton Friedman

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

Henry David Thoreau

"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."

Charles Kuralt

"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."

Art Buchwald